None of the tools we use such as the IPhone Victor or BookSense have good enough voices to be able to read a book with.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jordan Gallacher Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 1:39 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: other synth for voiceover on iphone? I venture to say you don't like the Victor Reader Stream either since it uses the same voices. Some applications on the iPhone do have their own voices, which works really well when you start multitasking especially with all but one of the GPS apps I use. Jordan From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of erik burggraaf Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:24 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: other synth for voiceover on iphone? Well, speech is down to personal preference. I don't like vocalizer. If I did, I'd probably have a choice to use it on my android. Lots of people do like it. If not, you have choices. You just install a new synth and off you go. Where-as on IPhone, the speech API is locked town so you can't have system-wide voices or choose to use a different speech engine with your voiceover. Which addresses the original question. Best, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2012-08-02, at 1:20 PM, Jordan Gallacher wrote: Nope I was using SVOX. Apple has done a great job and I don't see any reason for them to need to change the synthesizer API. The only issue I have is one app that uses VoiceOver instead of its own speech, which means that the screen is on when the phone is in my pocket. So far though, that has not even been a problem. Jordan From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Oferik burggraaf Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:03 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: other synth for voiceover on iphone? You probably had pico which is the default speech. It makes my ears bleed. You can get ivona or loquendo and they are much better. Best, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2012-08-02, at 12:42 PM, Jordan Gallacher wrote: No its not. When I had an Android phone, the speech was saying things wrong. The speech on the iPhone gets everything I have thrown at it correct. Jordan From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Oferik burggraaf Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 6:36 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: other synth for voiceover on iphone? This is a major detraction of the IPhone. I've put in a request several times to have apple open up the speech API so that synthesizers could be shared across applications but nothing doing. It's not even just voiceover. It's all self-voicing applications. If I buy acapella voices for prismo, and then I want to use them in navigon, forget it. If I buy loquendo voices for my voice communication aid and want to use them in prismo, sorry, nop. One reason I especially love my android is that I have a choice of ivona, loquendo, svox, and hopefully soon acapella voices that will work with talkback and any other application I choose. Vocalizer isn't as bad as svox or pico, but if it's an improvement on realspeak I'm not sure how. It's pronunciation is pretty horrible. It's useless for street names in gps applications for example. Best, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2012-08-02, at 3:13 AM, Joseph Lee wrote: Hi, No (BTW, VoiceOver uses Vocalizer, which is an improvement compared to RealSpeak). Cheers, Joseph -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Bahr Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 11:30 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: other synth for voiceover on iphone? Hi, is it possible to use another synth with voiceover if I don't really like the realspeak voices on my iphone? If so what can I use? -- Dave C. Bahr Facebook: Dave Bahr Twitter: dcbahr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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